Rob Schoening schrieb: > Keep in mind that when people used to using other VCSs ask about tags > or labels, they may not understand that what they're asking for is > already provided by monotone by way of the SHA1 revision id, albeit > not with friendly user-defined names. You are right that this is technically possible, of course. Still it is nice (in the user-interface sense) to be able to let the VCS manage the mapping from release number to revision id. Otherwise you just add another level of indirection (look up the revision id in the configuration management / text file whatever) and need to copy-paste or manually enter it, opening up a can of possible user errors. So while tags are not strictly necessary, they are a "nice-to-have".
Also, while I agree that it has questionable value to frequently move tags between revisions I still do think every edit I do in a software should be undoable/correctable. It would be unfortunate if I tag a revision by accident and do not have the possibility to correct this mistake later. Markus _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
